Boudin spent a lot of his time in Deauville from the 1860s, finally buying a home there in 1884. Although Boudin is most famous for painting views of beaches near Deauville, he also enjoyed the countryside surrounding it and this is one of a number of scenes he painted in the area. In this large painting, he depicts a tranquil scene of a river, bending to the left, and its surroundings. Although there are no figures in the scene, their presence is evoked by the small boat tied up to one of the wooden poles of a fence in the foreground and a stream of smoke coming out from a chimney of one of the houses in the distant background, amongst a line of trees. The painting is rendered very lively by the use of rich autumnal tonalities in contrast with the very pale blue sky.